Category Archives: wisdom

Study Tonight, Truth You Can Count On: The Word on the Word

We continue our Truth You Can Count On study. Tonight, 7:00, what the Word says about the Word. We stream it on Facebook Live (at the account Lisa and I share, RC-Lisa) for those who attend online. You can usually … Continue reading

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Why are we so stupid? Examining Our Besetting Wrongness

It’s not at all unusual for us to shake our heads at the world, to bemoan the stupidity of the common man. Which is kind of weird, since we are all common men. We somehow think that we have risen … Continue reading

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Athens and Jerusalem, City of God and City of Man

What hath Jerusalem to do with Athens? Much in every way. On the negative side, we’d do well to remember that the citizens of God’s city, like those in the city of man, are still sinners. Though we are indwelt … Continue reading

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Digital Directions: Caught in the Cattle Chute

I’m not a fan of Disney parks. And not because of increasing woke messaging. I didn’t care for them back when they really were family friendly. The message was fine. The method was not. That is, what I don’t like … Continue reading

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Embracing Righteous Anger, While Maintaining Peace

“Judge not” is surely that text in all of Scripture that is most misunderstood outside the kingdom. Among believers we misunderstand Paul’s admonition to the Ephesians, “Be angry but do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26). We soundly conclude from this text … Continue reading

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Rightly Ordering Our Love: a Brief Lesson

It was Augustine who argued that every sin is a failure to love ordinately. Either we love something more than we ought or love something less than we ought. We are to love, in order. Eve, for instance, found the … Continue reading

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Back Up: Rethinking Rebukes From a Friend

It is because we are saved by grace that we sinners are able to confess publicly that we are sinners. It is because we are sinners, however, that we are so quick to get defensive any time someone accuses us … Continue reading

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New Study Begins Tonight, Truth You Can Count On

Before Christmas we finished a six-part series on our call to be as children. For more on that theme, see my book The Call to Wonder. Today, January 19, we begin a new Bible study called Truth You Can Count … Continue reading

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Not a Sin, But Not the Ideal: A Cautious Warning

We all are prone to both legalism and antinomianism. When we want to do something God’s law forbids, we become antinomian. If we want someone else to not do what we think they should not, we become legalists. We add … Continue reading

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Kids and Their Phones, or, Old Man Yelling at Clouds

There was a time when I saw every complaint about any technology as an assault on the blessings of liberty. My loyalty to free markets made me suspicious of anyone casting doubt on the marvels of new whiz bang machines. … Continue reading

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